Dr. Stefanie Mueller
[email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
April 2017 to
Visiting Fellow, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Free University,
March 2018
Berlin.
Host: Frank Kelleter
Oct. 2014 to
Feodor Lynen Fellow, English Department, University of
Sept. 2016
California, Irvine, CA.
Host: Brook Thomas
Oct. 2010 to
Visiting Fellow, African American Studies Department, Harvard
March 2011
University, Cambridge, MA.
Host: Werner Sollors
Sept. 2007 to
Assistant Professor, Institute for English and American Studies,
March 2016
Goethe-University Frankfurt.
Sept. 2003 to
Assistant Teacher for German at St Edward’s School, Oxford,
June 2004
UK.
EDUCATION
November
Dr. phil. in American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
2011
The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison
(summa cum laude)
Advisor: Christa Buschendorf
Oct. 2000 to
Magister Artium in American and English Studies, Goethe-
June 2006
University, Frankfurt.
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
2017
Return Fellowship for Feodor Lynen Fellows, Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Bonn.
2017
Travel Scholarship for Lectures and Conferences, German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn.
2015
Finalist of “The Toni Morrison Society Book Prize 20122015.”
2015
Conference Grant (“The Implicit Sociology of Literature,”
with Astrid Franke, Katja Sarkowsky, Johannes Voelz), German
Research Foundation [DFG], Bonn.
2014 to 2016
Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation, Berlin.
2014 to 2015
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for Harvard
Humanities Center, Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover;
declined.
2014
Conference Grants (“Financial Times: Economic Temporalities
in US Culture,” with Christian Kloeckner).
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German Research Foundation [DFG], Bonn.
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Association of Friends and Supporters of the Goethe
University, Frankfurt.
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US Embassy and German Association for American
Studies [DGfA].
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2013
Project Grant (“It’s not television. Graduate conference on
British and US-American TV-Series”), Association of Friends
and Supporters of the Goethe University, Frankfurt.
2012 to 2013
Scholarship, Young Researchers in Focus
[NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen im Fokus.], Goethe
University, Frankfurt.
2012
Scholarship Fulbright American Studies Summer Institute (San
Francisco and Washington, DC).
2010
Research Grant, Association of Friends and Supporters of the
Goethe University, Frankfurt.
2010
Travel Grant, Association of Friends and Supporters of the
Goethe University, Frankfurt.
2003 to 2007
Student Scholarship, German National Merit Foundation
[Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes], Bonn.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
June 2013
Women’s Representative, Dpt. for English and American
to July 2014
Studies, Frankfurt.
April 2011
Co-ordinator for the design and implementation of the
to July 2014
American Studies MA-program, Dpt. for English and American
Studies, Frankfurt.
April
Member of the Didactic Colloquium,
to Sept. 2012
Dpt. for English and American Studies, Frankfurt.
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April 2008
Elected member, Executive Board, Dpt. for English and
to Oct. 2012
American Studies, Frankfurt.
April 2009
Elected member, Executive Board, Faculty of Modern
to Oct. 2010
Languages, Frankfurt.
April
Selection committee member, Junior Professor (W1) American
to Oct. 2009
History, Dpt. for English and American Studies, Frankfurt.
Oct. 2008
Selection committee member, Professor (W2) American
to April 2009
Cultural Studies, Dpt. for English and American Studies,
Frankfurt.
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“The Marketplace of Ideas and the Role of Metaphor in Law and Poetry.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Conference.
Stanford University Law School, CA. (March 2016)
“Corporation.” Object Lessons in Personhood. Annual Meeting of the Modern
Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. (January 2017)
“The Circle and Corporate Life.” German American Studies Association Annual
Conference: “The US and the Question of Rights”, University of Osnabrueck.
(May 2016)
“’The Clouds Part:’ Corporations, Poetry, and Political Expression after Citizens
United.” Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual
Conference. UConn School of Law, CT. (March 2016)
“The Corporate Imaginary in the Progressive Era.” Institute of English Studies,
University of Warsaw, PL. (January 2016)
“The Incorporation of Rural America: Frank Norris’ ‘Epic of the Wheat’ and
Corporate Perpetuity.” Financial Times: Economic Temporalities in US Culture.
Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. (March 2015)
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“Nightmares of Incorporation in William Austin’s ‘Martha Gardner; or, Moral
Reaction.’” Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual
Conference. Georgetown University Law School, WDC. (March 2015)
“Possessive Individualism in Home and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” 15th
Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth
Literature and Language Studies: “Uncommon Wealths: Riches and
Realities.” Innsbruck, Austria. (April 2014)
“Economic and Political Incorporation in HBO’s Deadwood.” Department of
English, American, and Celtic Studies. University of Bonn. (November 2013)
“‘It’s a relationship business’ – Family and Corporate Culture in Showtime’s
House of Lies.” Screening Class: Precarious Visions and American Studies.
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. (June 2013)
“‘Around and around and back home again.’ Self-made Men, Falling Men, and
Hobos in AMC’s Mad Men.” It’s not television. Conference on
Contemporary US-American and British TV-Series. Goethe University, Frankfurt
am Main. (February 2013)
“The Established and the Outsiders in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of
Tradition,” Augsburg, Germany. (January 2013)
“Corporate Power and the Public Good in Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray
Flannel Suit.” Post-Graduate Forum of the GAAS, University of Marburg.
(November 2012)
“‘A man is whatever room he’s in’ – Identity as Commodity in AMC’s Mad
Men,” International Symposium: Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen,
Wannabes in North American Culture, University of Jena. (April 2012)
“Standing Up to Words – Writing and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,”
International Symposium: Writing Slavery after Beloved: Literature,
Historiography, Criticism, Université de Nantes, France. (March 16-17,
2012)
“Textsoziologie.” Hooked On Theory (Lecture Series), Frankfurt am Main. (January
2012)
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“The Presence of the Past in Toni Morrison’s Love,” American Literature
Association, Boston. (May 2011)
“The Logic of Property in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” German American Studies
Association Annual Conference: “American Economies”, Berlin. (June 2010)
“The State Nobility? - The Power of the Academic Elite in Donna Tartt’s The
Secret History,” German American Studies Association Annual Conference:
“Education and the USA”, Jena. (June 2009)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND WORKSHOPS
March 2017 “Poetry and Law.” (Workshop, with Birte Christ) Association for the
Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Conference. Stanford
University Law School, CA.
March 2016 “American Poetry Imagines the Law.” (Workshop, with Birte Christ)
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual
Conference. Hartford, CT.
June 2015
“The Implicit Sociology of Literature” (Conference, with Astrid
Franke, Katja Sarkowsky, Johannes Voelz), Goethe University, Frankfurt
am Main.
March 2015 “Financial Times: Economic Temporalities in US Culture” (Conference,
with Christian Kloeckner), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
www.financialtimes-conference.de
May 2013
“Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the
Transformation of the Western Genre” (Workshop), with Christa
Buschendorf and Katja Sarkowsky. “Rural America” – German
American Studies Association Annual Conference, Erlangen.
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Feb. 2013
“It’s not television. Graduate conference on British and US-American
TV-Series” (Conference, co-organizer), Goethe-University, Frankfurt am
Main.
Mai 2010
“Property – Belonging – Autonomy: Economies in (Neo-) Slave
Narratives and Fictions of Slavery” (Workshop), with Christa
Buschendorf. “American Economies” – German American Studies
Association Annual Conference, Berlin.
Dec. 2009
“Money, Manners, and Ideas: On the Interrelation between Habitus
and Social Status” (Conference, co-organizer), International
Roundtable Symposium in Honor of Christa Buschendorf. Goethe
University, Frankfurt.
MEMBERSHIPS
German American Studies Association
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities
Modern Language Association
The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
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Dr. Stefanie Mueller
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
a. Monographs
The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag
Winter, 2013. Print.
b. Edited Volumes
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation
of the Western Genre. Co-edited with Christa Buschendorf and Katja
Sarkowsky. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Print.
Poetry Imagines the Law. Co-edited with Birte Christ. Amerikastudien/American
Studies: A Quarterly. Special Issue. 62.2. (Summer 2017) Print.
Financial Times: Economic Temporalities in US Culture. Co-edited with Christian
Kloeckner. (Special Issue, in preparation)
c. Articles
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Peer-reviewed
“Exceeding Determinacy in the Language of Personhood: Citizens United,
Corporations, and the Poetry of Timothy Donnelly and Thomas Sayers Ellis.”
Poetry Imagines the Law. Birte Christ und Stefanie Mueller, eds.
Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly. Special Issue. Special Issue.
62.2. (Summer 2017) Print.
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“Towards a Legal Poetics.” (Introduction, co-authored) Poetry Imagines the Law.
Birte Christ und Stefanie Mueller, eds. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A
Quarterly. Special Issue. Special Issue. 62.2. (Summer 2017) Print.
“State, Law, and Violence in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition.”
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 24:1 (2017).
“House of Lies and the Management of Emotions.” Sieglinde Lemke and Wibke
Schniedermann, eds. Class Divisions in Serial Television. London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016. 143-158. Print.
“’A man is whatever room he’s in’ – Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC’s
Mad Men.” Caroline Rosenthal, Stefanie Schäfer, eds. Fake Identity? The
Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Campus Verlag, 2014. 192-209.
Print.
“’Standing Up To Words’ – Writing and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s A
Mercy.” Black Studies Papers (May 2014). Web.
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Not peer-reviewed
“An Aesthetics of Resolution and the Figure of the Renegade: A Conversation.”
Interview with Gerald Nestler (with Christian Kloeckner). Financial Times:
Economic Temporalities in US Culture. Co-edited with Christian Kloeckner. (in
preparation)
“Corporate Personality and the TruYou in Dave Eggers’ The Circle.” Law and
Culture: Methods, Concepts and Approaches. Sabine Meyer and Peter
Schneck, eds. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. (in review)
“Black Women’s Business: Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Agency in Toni
Morrison’s God Help the Child.” Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading
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African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias. Christa
Buschendorf, ed. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017.
“National and Economic Incorporation in HBO’s Deadwood.” Christa
Buschendorf, Stefanie Mueller and Katja Sarkowsky, eds. Violence and Open
Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western
Genre. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Print.
“Violence and Space in the Post-Western.” (Introduction, co-authored) Christa
Buschendorf, Stefanie Mueller and Katja Sarkowsky, eds. Violence and Open
Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western
Genre. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Print.
“Book review: Anne Mihan, Undoing Difference?” ANGLIA 132/4 (2014). Web.
“Corporate Power and the Public Good in Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray
Flannel Suit.” COPAS Vol. 14, 2013. Web.
“The State Nobility? The Power of the Academic Elite in Donna Tartt’s The Secret
History.” Laurenz Volkmann, ed. Education and the USA. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. Print.
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